“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

with your existence, you wicked

 

The mood was strange.

 

couldn’t take

 

turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on warming up the desolate

 

chest to chest

 

must be my appearance you’re at least not dissatisfied with, my

 

that, it didn’t mean anything. There are a

 

you doing here, then? Hurry up

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

came closer, as if there was still space left

 

don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

swiftly, the woman raked her fingers through the man’s hair and dug her

 

her size,

 

why I was here, as I took in the

 

and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The

 

hopeless and wretched all

 

eyes turned

 

only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the outside looking in. I wasn’t truly

 

woman smiled at

 

in my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I hadn’t

 

The woman was me.

 

Borgia, that’s you… That’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t call

 

into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost

 

***

 

eyes had me

 

was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to

 

got me here? What

 

up, I turned my eyes to my right, the feeling of someone else’s arm

 

I wanted to cry.

 

was overjoyed to see him safe and lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but there were no words

 

eyes leaving no part of his

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

his bangs, the movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater

 

a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t you tell

 

thinking of anything. It felt like it didn’t really matter, none of

 

this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like a movie

 

felt like a stranger in my own body thinking about

 

and hoarse

 

“What…?”

 

broken for a long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was

 

something I knew very well, something that had revealed itself to me time

 

had enough of my sniveling

 

been like

 

“Always.”

 

his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the people around you blind

 

where I’m hated without doing anything. I can’t seem to

 

numb finger, gently at first until I

 

on gazing at me with that same brokenhearted look

 

arm was free, he could embrace me fully, enveloping me in

 

moved instead, putting my own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing

 

didn’t understand why my head felt so

 

had a dream, but I didn’t remember it at

 

like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s not always

 

arrogant

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